(C)

Life in the 21st century will be different from life in the 20th century, because many changes will take place in the new century, but what will the changes be?

The population is growing fast. There will be more and more people in the world and most of them will live longer than before. Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools.

People will work fewer hours than they did in the 20th century, and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.

There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day, instead, they eat more vegetables and fruit. Maybe people will be healthier.

Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots. Because of this, may people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

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66. According to the passage, there will be ____ in the 21st century.

A. fewer buildings and houses              B. more cows and sheep

C. more people                        D. fewer people

67. From the passage, we know something about life in the 21st century.                                      which will every family have at least one?

A. computer         B. Tv set             C. VCD        D.robot

68. People don’t have to ____ in the 21st century.

A. travel             B. work long hours        C. eat meat        B.work

69. Look at the fourth paragraph(段落), it is talking about the change of ____.

A. the population        B. computers        C. our food        D.work

70.People may not have as much _________ as they did in the 20th century.

A . fruit            B. milk            C. bread          D. meat

(D)

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Hundreds of years ago, life was harder than it is today.71        ______. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty.72                .Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution to all living things in the world.

Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt (被状物) over a city.73                .

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t let dirty smoke go into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground.74                 . If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.

75                   . Every person must help to fight pollution.

A. Rules are not enough.

B. This kind of quilt is called smog.

C. People didn’t have modern machines.

D. We can go to work by bus with our friends in the same car.

E. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water.

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Once there were five beggars(乞丐). One was English, one Turkish(土耳其人), one Greek(希腊人), one was an Arab (阿拉伯人)and one was Persian(波斯人). One day they met and decided to stay together, sharing what they had and helping each other in trouble times.

Soon a man passed them in the street and gave them a coin. They talked about what to do with it. At last they decided to buy something to eat.

“Let’s buy some grapes!” said the Englishman. But the Turkish wanted “uzum”, the Arab “aneb”, the Greek “stafelea”, and the Persian insisted on(坚持) “angur”. They did not understand each other’s language very well. Soon they quarreled and even fought.

While they were fighting about how to spend the money, a stranger came along. He knew all the five languages. He asked them why they were fighting. After they told him, he said, “Give me your coin. I will buy what you want.”

He was soon back with a bunch of grapes. Each beggar was happy, as each had what he had wanted. They all asked for the same thing, but the word for“grapes”is different in different languages.

If people could understand each other, there would be no need to fight.

76. The five ___________came from different countries , so they didn’t speak the _________ language .

77.  _________ the money , they decided to buy __________ to eat.

78. They quarreled and even___________ because they didn’t _________ each other’s language very well.

79. With the _________ of the stranger, they were__________ to get what they wanted.

80. In fact, all of them wanted to buy _________. If everyone can know different languages, we have no __________ understanding people.